The Art of Angling: John Rickard
About the Artist It seems clichéd to write that every artist has a muse, but perhaps it’s true.…
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The Master of Meander: Kaleidoscope
Early this month, Mike, Rick, and I brought 117 years of smarts about fly fishing for bass to…
California Confluences: Lisa Cutter
If you’ve read pretty much anything that Ralph Cutter has written in this magazine, or anywhere else, for…
Richard Alden Bean, 1941–2014
Richard Alden Bean, 1941–2014, a contributing editor to California Fly Fisher and its warmwater columnist, passed away in…
Why the Kid Went Fishing
For the kid, the only constant and reliable aspect of life was that of feeling different. This, and…
The Art of Angling: John Sherman
I started fishing at the very early age of 3 on a farm pond in North Carolina, far…
The Master of Meander: Of Hope, Luck, and Occam’s Dull Razor
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,”…
California Confluences: Michael Checchio
If you’ve read this magazine for any time at all, you’ve read the work of Michael Checchio —…
The Art of Angling: John Martin Streeby
If you visit Redding or the nearby Coleman National Fish Hatchery, you’ll have a hard time missing John…
The Master of Meander: The Magic of One and Only
We’d bushwhacked the icy bank of a closed-to-fishing tributary for three or four hundred yards, spooking spawning salmon…